Online Poetry

Lisken Van Pelt Dus is a poet, teacher, and martial artist, raised in England, the US, and Mexico, and now living in Massachusetts. Her work can be found in such journals as Conduit, The South Carolina Review, qarrtsiluni, and upstreet, and has earned awards and honors from The Comstock Review, The Atlanta Review, and Cider…

James Davis is a teacher, editor, and author of the poetry collection Club Q (Waywiser 2020), which Edward Hirsch selected for the Anthony Hecht Poetry prize. His work has been featured on NBC News and CBC Radio, as well as in Best New Poets, Nashville Review, Copper Nickel, fourteen poems, and Bennington Review. He serves as Poetry Editor for American Literary Review and an Associate Poetry Editor…

Raphael Kosek’s poems have appeared in numerous journals and magazines such as Southern Humanities Review, Briar Cliff Review, Poetry East, Catamaran, The Chattahoochee Review and many others.  She also writes creative non-fiction and lyric essays, two of which have won first place awards at Eastern Iowa Review and Bacopa Review.  Harmless Encounters won the 2021 Jesse Bryce Niles Chapbook Contest…

Kim Ports Parsons’ debut collection Mayapple Forest is forthcoming from Terrapin Books.  Kim grew up near Baltimore, earned degrees, taught for decades, and worked in libraries. Now, she lives next to Shenandoah National Park where she gardens, walks, and writes. Her poetry has appeared in The Galway Review, Cider Press Review, Banyan Review, and other journals. She volunteers weekly for Cultivating Voices…

Theresa Wyatt is the author of Hurled Into Gettysburg, BlazeVox Books, 2018. Besides the powerful tug of history, Theresa divides her creative time between the poetry of place, ekphrasis, eulogy, and the healing aspects of medical narratives. Her poems have appeared in the W. W. Norton anthology, New Micro, A Celebration of Western New York Poets, Buffalo Legacy Publications, Pulse, Spillway, Steel Bellow,…

Perry S. Nicholas is a recently-retired English professor at SUNY Erie Community College in Buffalo, N.Y., where he was awarded the 2008 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Scholarship and Creative Activities and the 2011 President’s Award for Classroom Instruction. He received the SGA’s Outstanding Teacher Award on two occasions. He has been a guest lecturer at Daemen College, Villa Maria…

Brian Culhane’s poetry has appeared widely in such journals as The New Republic, The Hudson Review, The Paris Review, and Plume. He has been awarded the Poetry Foundation’s Emily Dickinson First Book Prize for The King’s Question, published by Graywolf Press. Remembering Lethe is his second poetry collection. A recipient of fellowships from MacDowell, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the…

Barbara Goldberg, award-winning poet, translator and speechwriter, has authored 8 books of poetry, most recently Breaking & Entering: New and Selected Poems.  The Royal Baker’s Daughter received the Felix Pollak Poetry Prize and Transformation: The Poetry of Translation received the Valentin Krustev Award.  The recipient of two fellowships from the NEA, her work appears in The Paris Review, Gettysburg Review and elsewhere.  As Series Editor of International Editions…